<div class="quote"><i>And those that abuse the bending should either get the death penalty or life without parole!</i></div>
<p>Guess they're gonna have to kill Kai then, also this is antithetical to airbending philosophy, & overall makes no sense. </p> <div class="quote"><i>Look at modern Germany for plots. At this point in the series, I wouldn't be surprised if many still blame the Fire nation for the war, even though those who ran it are now long dead. Perhaps some of the Fire nation people are sick of apologizing for the actions of their ancestors. The fire nation had prisoners from all over the world during the war. How have they handled the end of the war and integrated into society?</i></div>
<p>Actually, I think these are probably the major reasons why the Triads formed. I looked up the history of the mafia for related reasons, & apparently it emerged because prisoners in Italy were freed after some war (I forget which one, it wasn't WW2 because the mob was already active at that point) & given high-profile jobs, due to being suspected of being prisoners of conscience. Unfortunately, some of them were actually criminals, & shenanigans ensued. </p><p>Other than the Italian mafia, the Irish mafia formed out of a need for the community to protect itself from outside aggression. If there's discrimination against people of Fire Nation descent, that would explain why the Agni Kais formed. </p>

<p>The ideas that I have for the Fire Nation are as follows: </p>

• Quite a bit of techological innovation actually going on.

• The occasional air n00b.

• Spirit activity.  A certain percentage of them are cranky, too.

• Human trafficking (especially when it comes to firebending prodigies; <i>blame P'Li's backstory for that one</i>).

• Triad activity.

• Corrupt nobles fomenting class warfare.

<div class="quote"><i>Deadcoder wrote:
We've seen the Earth Kingdom fragment, collapse, reform, and dissolve. We've seen the water tribes break down into a dogma/religious-vs-secular/egalitarian war. We've seen a revival of the air people. I'd like to see something involving the Fire nation. There's definitely some potential. <p>It has a ton of writing potential: </p>

• Look at modern Germany for plots. At this point in the series, I wouldn't be surprised if many still blame the Fire nation for the war, even though those who ran it are now long dead. Perhaps some of the Fire nation people are sick of apologizing for the actions of their ancestors.
• Did the end of the war hurt the economy? A bunch of people were probably making money making those tanks and war-balloons. What happened to those jobs? Are those people angry?
• Is the fascism that made their war possible still present in Fire nation society?
• Is the royal family getting a lot of crap for the fire nation failing to recover?
• The fire nation is an island country. Are the people of some of the islands being politically neglected?
• Is there political fallout from the previous seasons? Is there chaos from the fire nation trying to establish relations with the new states from the Earth Kingdom? Has a neo-equalist sympathizer movement emerged? Is a spiritual revival in place?
• The fire nation had prisoners from all over the world during the war. How have they handled the end of the war and integrated into society?
• Have the events of the previous seasons affected the Fire nation economy? Being an island nation, they're low on resources. The chaos of the Earth Kingdom, the issues in the Republic, and the occupation of the south probably all interfered with supply chains. That would affect the Fire nation severely.

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<p><span style="font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,245,205);">The Fire Nation seems to have been rather a big help in restoring peace back into the world, so I don't think people actually held anything much against them. Especially since Izumi seems be doing her best to avoid conflict. But similar to Germany, I don't think jokes about the Fire Nation taking and burning the world were uncommon.</span> </p><p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Oh, people were angry, alright. Smoke and Shadow confirmed</span> that people were'<i> no'</i>t happy with losing their high positions in the Fire Nation miltary and some even formed groups of rebellions against Zuko, the strongest and most popular being the New Ozai Society. It's very likely that the end of the war did hurt the nation economically, but I don't think it's truly sinking in yet (it wouldn't be unrealistic for the United Republic being an idea to help the Fire Nation with their decline of jobs). </p><p>Ehm, about 70 years after the war? The facism is most likely over by now. </p><p>The Fire Nation actually seems be doing a good job of recovering, and it doesn't seem like there's any sort of special hate towards the Royal Family as a whole for whatever the Fire Nation seems to be failing at. </p><p>We don't have enough information about them to suggest a plausible theory. </p><p>Again, not enough information for a plausible assumption. The Fire Nation striked me as an independent and solid nation in LoK, where they didn't even need the Avatar to help out in stability. The Fire Nation was also said to be the nation with the least amount of benders, but I can't really tell if this would spark an equalist revolution or not. The Fire Nation seems pretty spirtual in LoK, though. We don't see much of them, but they've certainly improved in the spirtual area as we see in Book 2: Spirits. </p><p>Well, all the war prisoners would logically have been released. All the ones who weren't sent there as war prisoners would not. </p><p>I'm not really sure about this. On one hand, the Fire Nation probably did rely on other nations for supplies they didn't have. So this would affect them (they didn't seem to have alliance with the Earth Kingdom, though). On the other hand, conflicts in the other nation didn't last long enough to impose a severe enough affect to their society. </p>

This is getting out of hand.

<div class="quote"><i>Aggression25 wrote:
This is getting out of hand.</i></div>
<p>? </p>

<p>I'd like to see a person bend all seven chakras. There is one of each of the four bending arts. Why not existing seven bending arts(the four+mind, sound and light)? </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Arxontas fantasma wrote: I'd like to see a person bend all seven chakras. There is one of each of the four bending arts. Why not existing seven bending arts(the four+mind, sound and light)? </p> </i></div>
<p>You can't bend chakras! </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Aggression25 wrote: </p> <div class="quote"> <p>Arxontas fantasma wrote: I'd like to see a person bend all seven chakras. There is one of each of the four bending arts. Why not existing seven bending arts(the four+mind, sound and light)? </p> </i></div>
<p>You can't bend chakras! </p> </div> <p>Mind: That's essentially what energybending is.  Done </p><p>Sound: Given that air is the most common medium through which sound travels, refined forms of airbending would effectively accomplish this (<i>exempli gratia</i> - Aang using airbending to blow the bison whistle, which makes sound).  Done </p><p>Light: Light is just a form of energy, specifically one that is present in fire, along with thermal energy, which firebenders can create and manipulate.  Done </p>

<p>Chakras are <i>nodes of energy flow</i>, often called "gates" through which Ki/Qi/Chi are channeled. Regardless of the type of bending, the same energy flow channels, nodes, gates must be opened. Ty Lee disrupted the bending of waterbenders (Katara), earthbenders (Ba Sing Se guards), firebenders (Azula), and she struck the same points regardlesss of the opponents. Plus disabling non-benders like Sokka. </p><p>By means of an analogy, the system of chi channels and chakra gates are like a system of pipes and valves. It doesn't care if it is full of air, dust, liquid, or whatever. It all will get routed to or blocked from the same places. </p><p>FYI, there are more than 7 chakras. Those are just the main/major gates *within* the body. In addition, there are "microgates" at each wrist, ankle, and distal phalanges (finger and toe tips), as well as centers of palms and soles. Furthermore, there are 5 <i>subpersonal</i> chakras <i>below</i> the feet, and 5 <i>transpersonal</i> chakras <i>above</i> the crown of the human head (although there is also a system of charting the chakra gate points by <i>respacing</i> them <i>inside</i> the human body, which is not widely accepted as that system does not line up with the "standard" 7 points). </p><p>I've heard there are a total of like 107 or so chakra gates, but have yet to find a source to name/locate them all. With what I've mentioned that accounts for a total of 45 (7 standard, 20 fingers & toes, 4 wrists & ankles, 4 palms & soles, 5 below foot, 5 above crown). LOL, no idea how thw system is affected if a person has extra digits... </p>

<p>To manipulate a chakra, you need to meditate! </p>